My nomination is a small beetle found in caves in Slovenia. A rather dull little insect, it had the misfortune to be named after a popular politician of the 1930s and is endangered in large part because of its name. So get your Anophthalmus hitleri while you can, before some other fascist bug collector gets the last one.

Oh, by the way, the coqui frog is FAR from extinction, and if they became wiped out, it would be a GOOD thing. Some parts of Hawaii are so horribly overrun by them it is almost impossible to have a conversation after sunset.

i can see this link twice without even having to scroll.you guys are really on the ball today.

#6 is clearly the Hypnotoad.

Just six?

I noticed some consequences from one of my actions the other day. I had a couple of paper wasp nests on my balcony, and didn't mind them. A few days ago I noticed there were now 6 of them, and they were getting bothersome. I knocked down a few of them, and now those bastids are flying around aimlessly on my balcony looking for their lost nests. They were more tolerable when they had something to fly to.

What, extinction needs a reason now?

The tigers and gorillas make me sad.

/yes, I have a "cool" bias.

Humans? Oh wait, we have a good reason. Don't worry, we'll take better care of this planet than you did.


WE WILL DESTROY YOU!!!

Accolade: The tigers and gorillas make me sad.

/yes, I have a "cool" bias.

I actually find your bias quite lame

/kidding

Amazing seeing Paris Hilton in an article about retarded behaviour.

Those snails look cool. Best thing would be to surely take a load of them, put them in a farm, breed and sell them, no?

Oh, and if you but a gorilla's hands then you're a scumbag.

farkeruk: Those snails look cool. Best thing would be to surely take a load of them, put them in a farm, breed and sell them, no?

Oh, and if you but a gorilla's hands then you're a scumbag.

Misspelled, but somehow appropriate.

muck4doo: farkeruk: Those snails look cool. Best thing would be to surely take a load of them, put them in a farm, breed and sell them, no?

Oh, and if you but a gorilla's hands then you're a scumbag.

Misspelled, but somehow appropriate.

He accidentally the whole hands.

A third of the problems in that article can be solved by eliminating Puerto Ricans.

Now when the same principles are applied to New York...

Weigard: ATwo thirds of the problems in that article can be solved by eliminating Puerto Ricans and Chinamen.

FTFM.

wait...they said that africans have very little economic resources on which to live by so they resort to selling gorilla parts.

/if you're gonna blame someone...think it through a little bit more.
//colonialism

I expected to see something about sea horses. I thought the Chinese were using them up, too, at an astounding rate for some Viagra replacement or other.

I hope they're okay. I like the idea of sea horses almost as much as the reality of them.

Where's Republican on that list.

That article really went overboard with the already tired use of "Wait, what?"

i was so hoping to find 'evangelicals' on that list

Ther is a good reason they are being wiped out; they are failing to adapt.

hasty ambush: Ther is a good reason they are being wiped out; they are failing to adapt.

Morbo has something to say to your trolling.

/Too lazy to find pic.

Hand Banana: That article really went overboard with the already tired use of "Wait, what?"

Wait, what?

Cap Ten Oblivious: Oh, by the way, the coqui frog is FAR from extinction, and if they became wiped out, it would be a GOOD thing. Some parts of Hawaii are so horribly overrun by them it is almost impossible to have a conversation after sunset.

Hmmn. They look kinda' small, so gathering just the legs would be kind of annoying. Have you considered deep frying them whole on a stick and selling them to tourists?

Just let the market sort it out. The market always knows what it's doing and the government makes things worse.

hasty ambush: Ther is a good reason they are being wiped out; they are failing to adapt.

You try and adapt to a bullet to the face.

mandingueiro: wait...they said that africans have very little economic resources on which to live by so they resort to selling gorilla parts.

/if you're gonna blame someone...think it through a little bit more.
//colonialism



I'd pay them to leave the primates alone

None of them appear to be tasty

Darn floor bad bite trouble trouble

If only one of the were Yellow Jackets wasps.

Vile little creatures...

There is one perfectly good reason: The human population doubles every 30 years or so. They're being crowded out by a more successful species.

It's ok though. When the wild animals are gone, we'll have realistic simulations of them interacting with you like the guys in costumes at Disneyland. Nobody will get mauled or eaten. There will be no poop to clean up. Eventually nobody will remember the difference...

...until that giant space death machine comes to talk to the whales, and when they don't answer it will destroy the planet, because by then Captain Kirk will be DEAD and unable to save us.

I think the impending extinction of William Shatner is the real worry here.

won't miss the fern. or the frog.

I mean, like, really won't miss them. at all.

Why can't something like mosquitoes go extinct? It's always the cute animals that never bothered anyone. (Well I suppose some of the dinosaurs may have been a bit of a problem for us)

austerity101: Weigard: ATwo thirds of the problems in that article can be solved by eliminating Puerto Ricans and Chinamen.

FTFM.

dude, chinaman is not the prefered nomenclature. asian-american, please.

Why aren't "Cracked writers" on the list?

Weigard: A third of the problems in that article can be solved by eliminating Puerto Ricans.

Now when the same principles are applied to New York...

99% of all problems everywhere can be solved by eliminating credulous retards.

Why is it that people who are so behind the idea of natural selection only like it when it's selecting a species to live and not when it selects one to die?

If it's wiped out then it has failed to adapt.

Obviously the first one inspired this:

As opposed to 6 good reasons for making a species extinct. Being a farking idiotic hillbilly, not one of those good reasons.

Just imagine being such a farking moron, that you have to maintain a job to feed your idiot children that wipes out a species that's been on Earth for millions of years. What possible excuse could you halve for not working around that creature, other than being a moron?

TopSpoT: As opposed to 6 good reasons for making a species extinct. Being a farking idiotic hillbilly, not one of those good reasons.

Just imagine being such a farking moron, that you have to maintain a job to feed your idiot children that wipes out a species that's been on Earth for millions of years. What possible excuse could you halve for not working around that creature, other than being a moron?

That creature not being compatible with your farm's field is the usual reason.

unclejimbo827: austerity101: Weigard: ATwo thirds of the problems in that article can be solved by eliminating Puerto Ricans and Chinamen.

FTFM.

dude, chinaman is not the prefered nomenclature. asian-american, please.

god forbid someone doesn't abide by your preference

Perhaps we can talk Paris Hilton into considering it fashionable to own trinkets made from various bits of dead white-tail deer.

The 5 Most Hated Creatures on the Planet (Don't Deserve It)
http://www.cracked.com/article_17481_5-most-hated-creatures-on-planet-dont-des er ve-it.html (pops)

#3. Rats
This was also during an era when our most scientific explanation for disease was some sort of divine punishment or witchcraft, and mankind had neither the facilities nor interest in washing their damn hands. Now obviously bubonic plague isn't a problem these days, and you'll be hard pressed to find a rat-spread disease that is. According ot the Center for Disease Control, rats don't even spread rabies.

That's right, despite their absolutely staggering numbers, rats are one of the animals you're least likely to get sick from.

// Except for that unpleasant HANTAVIRUS (and a few more germy issues).

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

The mainland Chinese who are killing the rhinos are the same disgusting people who will pee on a wall at Hong Kong Disneyland rather than use a toilet.

I'm surprised we don't see Glen Beck out there shooting these things out of spite.

muck4doo: I noticed some consequences from one of my actions the other day. I had a couple of paper wasp nests on my balcony, and didn't mind them. A few days ago I noticed there were now 6 of them, and they were getting bothersome. I knocked down a few of them, and now those bastids are flying around aimlessly on my balcony looking for their lost nests. They were more tolerable when they had something to fly to.

Try shooting their nests with a few squirts of WD-40. That will give them something to do.